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all the KHs'-kî-mo people came out. They walked at first in a one-sided manner, their 

 joints being imperfectly formed, but Kau-C-a-ke-luh remedied this, and thus originated 

 the Kôs'-kî-mo tribe. 



Further on, Kan-ê-a-ke-luh found a man playing in the surf on the shore. He would 

 allow the waves to roll him over and over on the beach, singing meanwhile thus, Yo ha 

 ha hi'. From the sound, Kan-C-a-ke-luh supposed that there must be a number of people, 

 but the creature had innumerable mouths, all over his body When Kan-ê-a-ke-luh spoke, 

 remonstrating with him for his foolish conduct, he was answered at once by all the 

 mouths. Kan-ê-a-ke-luh then passed his hands over the body of this creatiare closing all 

 the mouths but one, and converting him into a properly formed man. 



Afterwards Kan-ë-a-ke-luh went on to Sâ-kish (Beaver Harbour). Here lived a man 

 and his son ; and Kan-ê-a-ke-luh was about to pass along the shore in front of their house, 

 which faced the sea. The son, however, who was a very powerful medicine man, said to 

 his father, " So this is he who is to put the world all in order again." He had a blanket 

 filled with diseases which he had conjured away from the sick, and shaking this blanket 

 toward Kan-ê-a-ke-luh, tht» latter was immediately overcome by the influence of the 

 diseases and fell into a swoon or sleep. This happened four times, when at last Kan-ê-a- 

 ke-luh had to content himself with going round behind the house, which it appears he 

 was allowed to do unmolested. 



Next Kan-ê-a-ke-luh heard that some way up the Nimpkish Eiver (Kwfi-ne) there 

 lived a man who had three daughters, and that these girls who had heard of his fame, 

 were making love songs about him and singing them. On arriving at the river and get- 

 ting near the house of these people he took off one of his shortest fingers, and made of it a 

 man, into the form of which he entered. This man (now Kan-ë-a-ke-luh) was covered 

 with sores from head to foot, and with a blanket wrapped about him waited at the edge 

 of the river where the girls came down to the water. Soon the three girls came down to 

 the river to bathe. The youngest, walking first, spied Kan-ê-a-ke-luh, and exclaimed, 

 " See this little slave," and the eldest sister replied, " So you have found a slave now." 

 "When the sisters went in to bathe, the two elder called upon Kan-ê-a-ke-luh to wait 

 on them, saying, "Come wash my back," and so on, but the youngest did not do so and 

 would not let him touch her, so he said " She must be my wife." He married her, and 

 after a son had been born, he went away from the Nimpkish River, leaving his wife and 

 son from whom the Nim'-kish people originated. 



After performing these and other tasks, Kan-ê-a-ke-luh returned to Cape Scott, his 

 old home. There he found that his brother had died, meanwhile, his bones only remain- 

 ing. Then Kan-ê-a-ke-luh said " You have been sleeping quite a long time, my brother," 

 and sprinkling the bones with water, brought him to life again. 



But the father and mother of Kan-ê-a-ke-luh acted very badly toward him and his 

 brother. "When they had caught plenty of salmon, the old man would raise an alarm that 

 people were coming in canoes to put Kan-ê-a-ke-luh to death, and when he and his 

 brother had run away into the woods to hide themselves, the father and mother would 

 boil and eat all the salmon. So Kan-ê-a-ke-luh became very angry, and one day he and 

 his brother hid themselves in the house. Then the father said, " So these boys have gone 

 again," and at once began to cook and eat their salmon. Kan-ê-a-ke-luh then shot him 



